Oxford Street Rock Pub Manchester

[granata]

Ooh a 1954 directory, that could come in very handy!   

Most of the info used on the blog is referenced from older directories, books on Manchester history (especially Neil Richardson's pub booklets), other websites and our own and readers' knowledge.

Unfortunately the B&B / GC is just outside the area covered in The Old Pubs of Hulme & Chorlton-on-Medlock by Bob Potts/Neil Richardson (1997).  Clynes Vaults, Royal Brew Vaults and Lass O'Gowrie are featured and are/were just yards away.

[Mr. MIGKY]

I have all thrre books of Neil Richardson's pubs in Salford 

Migky 

[Barbara.H]

Welcome to Rootschat Granata  

I've gone off at a tangent now reading about this 'Beer Scare'!

If you search in google books for Manchester Beer Scare, you get quite a few hits that cover the incident, it was a big story at the time. Apparently 6000 people were affected and 70 people died. Most of the contaminated sugar was traced to a refiners in Liverpool and by a strange coincidence, the firm was called Bostock and Co  

They feature on the Sugar Refiners historical database here
http://home.clara.net/mawer/sugarbbio.html

and seem to be an old established firm going back to the 18th century. Bostocks of Liverpool then took a firm in Leeds to court for supplying them with chemicals containing arsenic.

I don't think there is a connection between that firm and our Peter Bostock though. Peter shows up on the 1841 & 1851 census in C-on-M and Hulme, with his father John Bostock who is a grocer from Ireland.

Can't have done his trade much good though, having the same surname as the producers of the dodgy sugar!

  Barbara

[Mr. MIGKY]

Barbara, your a star. What great reseach 

Migky 

[granata]

Great stuff Barbara, many thanks, I'll have a look on google books. 

Migky:   Pubs of Ancoats, Deansgate (Manchester Village), Little Italy, Ancoats Lad, etc. are all well worth a look too.

I've got all the Manchester ones if they can ever be of any help to anyone.

In fact the only one that Neil Richardson doesn't appear to have covered before he sadly passed away is central Manchester (and is none of the reasons we started the Pubs of Manchester blog... that and a valid excuse to have a regular pint in town  )

[Mr. MIGKY]

Well here is some one looking for more help on one such pub 

Click here to help on this pub thread


Migky 

[annafabulous]

Hi everyone. Wow you have all been so busy while I've been away!

No worries about the pub website Granata. However I'd quite like to wait till we have completed all our research before updating again - one big swoop rather than dribs and drabs! That way I can make sure all the leads have been followed before consolidating it all and making a cohesive history.

However some other things on there about the way the pub is today are pretty out of date so I'll write something more accurate later so you can make sure the whole thing is right

I still don't believe in ghosts, I think, but Peter Bostock does sound very much like one of the ghosts who have been reported here!

[emmsthheight]

Hi Migky

Hi All

Thank you I didn't need tempting.  I just needed to get o0nline.  Only on every couple of days now until mkine gets sorted.  I'm on my sisters after a trip across the border.  Just camer on to show her some family history stories!

Yes, I'll definitely look in the 1954 and see what other photo's there are.

Might be a couple of days though!

Thanks for the pm Migky!

Best wishes all.

Emms

[Mr. MIGKY]

Hi Emms, good to see you back on here. Are you having trouble with your inter net connection or your PC?
Migky